A Perfect Night by WaynePinkston

A Perfect Night for Photography in the Valley of Dreams East, In the New Mexico Badlands. There was a lot of airglow in one area of the sky, adding a lot of color. You can see how bizarre the landscape is, a very alien and otherworldly place.

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Lost in a Dream… by WaynePinkston

Hoodoos in the Valley of Dreams East, in the Badlands region of NW New Mexico.

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Go Quietly into the Night by WaynePinkston

This is one of the Winged Hoodoos of the Bisti Badlands in New Mexico, USA. The Badlands are a wonderland of strange and unusual eroded rock shapes. There are different layers of rock that have been laid down over the millennia, and these rock have different degrees of hardness or softness. The softer rocks erode faster, leaving layers of less eroded harder rock on top.

This was taken as a single exposure.

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Lost in the Valley of Dreams by WaynePinkston

This is a “selfie” taken in a place called The Valley of Dreams. If you are lost it can be the Valley of Nightmares. It has become part of my routine, getting lost at night. Thankfully there is GPS so you know you will eventually get back to the car. Go out at night, park, hike, take photos, get lost or turned around.

Anyway, this place is called the Valley of Dreams and is in the New Mexico Badlands, located south of Farmington and the Bisti Badlands, and just North of Chaco Canyon. I was looking for interesting places that are not frequented, and this really fits the bill, being located in the middle of nowhere. There are many miles of dirt roads to reach this place. There is not much information on the internet on this area, but an excellent website is: http://ift.tt/1X19xV0. This is near the Ah-shi-sie-pah wilderness and an area called the Wilderness Study area.

This area is like Hoodoo Heaven, with small to medium hoodoos all around. The area pictured is one of the flatter areas, with a number of low ridges all around containing innumerable hoodoos. You are very unlikely to encounter other people here. The hoodoos are primarily mudstone hoodoos, with a softer base and a harder cap. The base erodes faster that the cap and creates many unique formations. More photos are just awaiting processing!

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Bisti Badlands of New Mexico at Night by WaynePinkston

This is a nightscape from the Bisti Badlands of New Mexico, located in NW New Mexico about 62 Km or 36 miles south of Farmington. It is a maze of small to moderate Hoodoos, washes, ridges, ravines, and hills. The variety of the shapes the Hoodoos take is amazing and well worth a visit. There are no marked trails and it is easy to get lost, so take a GPS device or Smartphone app!

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